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Portable Iron Houses Complex

399 Coventry Street and 6-8 Patterson Street,, SOUTH MELBOURNE VIC 3205 - Property No B2240

The iron house fronting 399 Coventry Street, South Melbourne and still located on the original site, was imported and erected in 1853 for local speculator Robert patterson. The portable iron structure of utilitarian design and unknown manufacture is constructed of a tee and angle section wrought iron frame clad with five inch pitch corrugated sheet, which is partitioned and lined internally with horizontal boards to form an attic cottage of six rooms. Portable iron ... more

B2240

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